Portugal’s new State Secretary of Health, Raquel Duarte, reaffirmed the government’s commitment with dental medicine, ensuring that “there is a huge effort in maintaining the population’s oral health care within the National Health System context”.

Within the Nacional Study for Oral Disease Prevalence III, developed in partnership by the National Dental Health Promotion Program and the Portuguese Dental Association, a sample of 6315 individuals was examined.

The healthcare professional orders, represented at the Conselho Consultivo da Entidade Reguladora da Saúde (ERS) – Advisory Board of the Health Regulation Authority by the Ordem dos Médicos Dentistas (Order of Dentists) and by the Ordem dos Médicos (Order of Physicians), demand a significant reduction on the regulatory fees charged to the healthcare providers.